_ 264 _ After the introductory matter comes the chief town of the province, by quarters (Mahalle), with the name of each householder. Sometimes the quarters are sub-divided into streets (Zuqaq). Christians and Jews, and sometimes other elements (e.g. Mamlük Jundis, Kurds, and Turcomans) are indicated,(A) as are also persons exempt from taxation (mu’af), viz., Imams, Mu’adhdhins, Khatibs, Sherifs, and the blind, mad, and disabled. Each household is shown as Khane or Müjerred. The first indicates the household of a married man, constituting a fiscal unit.(B) The second denotes a bachelor not forming part of his father’s Khane and regarded as a separate fiscal entity. Monasteries are also listed with the names of their occupants. The record of the town ends with (A) Thus, in Palestine there are Turcoman quarters in Gaza and Ramla, and Kurdish quarters in Gaza, Hebron, and Safed. Christians and Jews are also frequently sub-divided into their various communities (Orthodox, Coptic, Armenian, Latin, etc., and Sefardic, Ashkenazi, Oriental, Samaritan, etc.). (B) Some idea of the size of a household in one city in modern times may be obtained from Ghazzi, who for each of the quarters of Aleppo gives the number of houses (Buyût) and the number of persons. The average number of persons to the house, for the 107 quarters, is 8-3. A comparison of the data in the Mufassals on Christians and Jews with the corresponding sections of the Jizye Defterleri, where much of the same material is differently presented, should be illuminating in this and other respects.
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